While he was questioned, Brown gave the officer a false name, because he had warrants out for his arrest. After that first encounter, Brown was taken back to the Sunglass Hut, to review the surveillance video and determine if he was the theft suspect.

It turns out police had the wrong guy.

But Brown fled from Caudill and ran to his car.

The defense admitted that Brown fled, but disputed the exact chain of events in the parking lot.

Caudill testified that he pulled his weapon and ordered Brown out of his car. When the car moved forward, he fired, hitting Brown in the leg.

On Friday, defense witness Deon Harris testified about what he saw unfold in the parking lot.

“Cop took a step back, fired two, landed on the hood, he rolled off to the right, unlocked the door, pulled him on the ground,” Harris said.

He described the car as moving forward slowly, not rapidly accelerating as though Brown was trying to strike the officer.

After hearing a mall security guard’s description of the events, he gave police a statement because he disputed what the guard said.

“(The security guard) was yelling – ‘Oh my God he just ran over – he tried to run over a cop, oh my God he just ran over a cop’ and that when I – I wasn’t going to say nothing, but that’s when I was like – 'I can’t say he was trying to run over a cop, but if a cop tells you to stop, you should stop,'” Harris said.

During closing arguments, assistant prosecutor John Arnold tried to keep the jury focused on the criminal charges they have to consider against Brown – rather than the fact that he was shot by a police officer.

“This is the matter of the state of Ohio versus Jamarcus Brown – it is not the matter of state of Ohio versus Officer Caudill,” Arnold said.

He said Brown had the ability to change the course of events, if he’d just complied with the officer’s instructions.

“All Jamarcus Brown has to do is hit the brake and put it in park, but Jamarcus Brown was going to flee,” Arnold said.

But defense attorney Jennifer Getty focused on Caudill’s actions. She urged the jury to consider inconsistencies in the witness testimony about what happened.

“You have to consider what this officer did that led to point A to point B.” She argued that the defense witnesses had no reason to lie about what they saw, but that Caudill “has everything on the line in this case."

“He comes to the mall on a theft complaint and ends up shooting an unarmed man in the mall parking lot – this officer has every reason to spin this story in the light that’s most favorable to him,” Getty said.

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